Red Riding Hood

• Book title

Red Riding Hood

• Author

Fran Hunia

• Analysis of the Story

Flat characters

Protagonist  Red riding hood

Antagonist  Big bad wolf

Foil character  Grandma

Supporting character  Red riding hood's daddy  

Setting  backdrop

Narrative point of view  omniscient narrator

Plot  sequential

Conflict  the protagonist against another

Theme  

Red riding hood's mummy asked her to bring some cakes for grandma in the woods.  While into the woods, she met the big bad wolf that wanted to eat both her and her grandma.  Thus, he went to grandma's house before red riding hood arrived.  When red riding hood finally got to her grandma's house, she found that her grandma had gone.  Fortunately, her father came and saved them.

Style  

Simple word choice, short sentence length, clear story construction, and easy and useful dialogue in the story. 

Tone

Peaceful atmosphere in the beginning until the big bad wolf showed on.  In the climax, when the big bad wolf pretended to be her grandma, the feeling turned out to be intense.  Finally, the father appeared, all the intensity relieved in the end.

• Reflection

 This is not the same type of Red Riding Hood as everybody know.  In the original version written by Grimm, both red riding hood and her grandmother were actually had been eaten by the big bad wolf.  Luckily, a hunter who passed by their house heard the calling for help, saving their life from the wolf's stomach.  However, in this version, the Red riding hood was not been eaten, neither was her grandmother.  Instead, her grandmother hid in a cupboard and Red riding hood ran outside asking for rescue.  I think these plot changes were because this book was mainly for the young children.  There were more plot in the book led kids to think, and to learn.  The grandma was not fragile like the previous version, she was able to find a place to hide.  The Red riding hood was not the same girl as well, she was smart enough to discover the disguised grandma on the bed.  On the cover of the book, the topic is  Read it yourself.  This picture book focused on letting children read the book on their own.  Therefore, the story had changed into a warmer and less terrific plot.  For children, they might use to listen to Grimm's Red Riding Hood, but this version would give them another image of the story.  

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